Two years after the release of jOBS – the Steve Jobs biopic starring Ashton Kutcher as the Apple product pioneer – comes another drama about Steve Jobs, and this one actually looks very good. (Our review of the previous version: “jOBS blows.”)
The star-studded film comes from multiple Oscar nominees and winners, including Michael Fassbender (12 Years a Slave), Kate Winslet (The Reader), screenwriter Aaron Sorkin (The Social Network) and director Danny Boyle (Slumdog Millionaire). Seth Rogen rounds out the cast as Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak, and although he’s never received an Oscar nod, his frequent collaborator Jonah Hill got his first nomination for an Aaron Sorkin screenplay (Moneyball) so maybe – just maybe – this is his year.
The classy new teaser for Steve Jobs arrived this weekend, and it does what teasers should do: give us a reason to hope for the best. Dramatic readings, a slick presentation and clever framing make a promise that this time, a Steve Jobs biopic won’t disappoint.
The teaser is above, the official synopsis is below, and we’ll all see how Steve Jobs turned out when it hits theaters on October 9, 2015.
Set backstage at three iconic product launches and ending in 1998 with the unveiling of the iMac, Steve Jobs takes us behind the scenes of the digital revolution to paint an intimate portrait of the brilliant man at its epicenter.
Steve Jobs is directed by Academy Award® winner Danny Boyle and written by Academy Award® winner Aaron Sorkin, working from Walter Isaacson’s best-selling biography of the Apple founder. The producers are Mark Gordon, Guymon Casady of Film 360, Scott Rudin and Academy Award® winner Christian Colson.
Michael Fassbender plays Steve Jobs, the pioneering founder of Apple, with Academy Award®-winning actress Kate Winslet starring as Joanna Hoffman, former marketing chief of Macintosh. Steve Wozniak, who co-founded Apple, is played by Seth Rogen, and Jeff Daniels stars as former Apple CEO John Sculley. The film also stars Katherine Waterston as Chrisann Brennan, Jobs’ ex-girlfriend, and Michael Stuhlbarg as Andy Hertzfeld, one of the original members of the Apple Macintosh development team.
William Bibbiani is the editor of CraveOnline’s Film Channel and the host of The B-Movies Podcast. Follow him on Twitter at @WilliamBibbiani.
